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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 3

SI'SI'ENDEI) ANIMATION. A remarkable ease of suspended ani-' niatiun occurred at A rural (Victoria): last week. A man named Henry Stock,! wlio has lu'cn suffering for years from cancer of the face, lives in a hut a( Moore's lleef by himself, lie was heard one night last week to be calling lor help, and a neighbour named Harris weal, and found him lying in a paddock, apparently in a dying condition. Help was obtained, and Stock was carried to 'his hut. where he appeared to sink and expire in Harris' arms. Jn about half an hour the man was left as dead, and . TlarrU informed bis friends, who adver- * tised the death, and prepared «n obituary notice. They then proceeded to air undertaker. A coffin was niado, and the undertaker was oil his way out with the coffin when he was met and told that Stock was alive, sitting up in "/lis hut. Ifis friends were arranging for the iuterI menfc when the undertaker telephoned | that the man was alive.